TOWN NOTES . J udge Suope held his first court since his recent illness on Monday of last week , 17 th inst _., nt which the prisoners convicted nt the April court weie sentenced and the usual current business was disposed of . On Sunday afternoon , 23 rd inst ., Rev . A . R . Steck preached a sermon to the graduating class of the High School , in the new school building . This is an innovation . Since the erection of the Me _. ule High School and the raising of the standard of instruction it has been decided that graduation should be marked with more formal exercises than heretofore . Sixty -fi \ e members of the Union League of Philadelphia came to Gettysburg on Saturday on a special tram over the Reading railroad , making the trip from the city 111 the fastest time that has ever been made to this place , four hours . After visiting the battlefield they returned home on Sunday . During their stay they were quartered at the Hotel Gettysburg and Eagle Hotel . After the arrival of th...

_COUUEGlAflfl _. — Spectrum ! Base-ball ! Examinations ! Commencement . —Go to the base-ball game to-day and yell like vengance . —J . C . Kollei _, D , D ., was in town yesterday visiting his sons . —The Sophomoie class will have a dinner at the Eagle . Secret ? —C . R . Coble and A . B . Coble , both of 97 , leceivcd a visit ( torn their father this week . —Carl Tipton , ex- 98 , a student in Medico Chi and his sister Miss Carrie , who has been attending a Conscivatoiy of Music , have returned home fiom Philadelphia . —The Sophomores will deliver their Oi iginals in three sections , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and Fnday respectively . The orations will embrace a variety of subjects . —The new Y . M . C . A . hand-book is about finished and will be ready for distribution in a few days . —A . R . Singmaster , 9 S , was initiated into Phiena Society Friday evening . —The last meeting of the literary societies was held on Friday evening . Both societies dispensed with their _icgula...

HTHUETICS . A number of the preliminary games of the Tennis Tournament have been played off , some of which have been very interesting . One of the closest games ever played here was of Sprenkle vs . Miller . The men were very evenly matched , and both played winning tennis but victory fell to the latter , winning his two out of three after an hour and a half of play . The remainder of the preliminary scries , and if possible the semi-finals will be played off this week . The results of the games so far are : ( Winners first . ) J . Meisenhelder and Staley , Sr ., vs . Staley , Jr ., and Weaver , Sr . 6-3 ; 5-6 ; 6-0 Roehnerand Weigle vs . Miller and Lafferty . 3 6 ; 6-3 6 4 . —Wheeler and Deveney vs . Meyer and Fite . 6-2 ; 6-2 . —Coble and Snyder vs . Kain and Weaver , Jr . 5-2 ; 6 5 Wolf and Hickman vs . Finch and Musselman . 6-0 ; 6-0 . —Erb and Bechtol vs . Albers and Gates . 6-2 ; 6-0 . —Lark vs . Wheeler . 6-2 ; 6-4 Kain vs . Staley , J r . 6-1 ; 6-2 Wolf vs . Friday . 6-5 ; ...

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BACCALAUREATE _SERfllON . Dr . Valentine based his baccalaureate discourse on 2 Cor . 4 : 18 It was an earnest appeal to the young men to fix in their minds the true perspective of life , and to live so as to realize its great divine ideal . He said in substance : To get an art product right the artist must idealize his work in advance , and pre-arrange it all to a ruling thought . Otherwise it will fail to measure to any divine reality or stand the test of life . The landscape , over which one looks with delight , has its beauty and excellence from its perspective , given by the Divine Artist who has stretched it out and on to its distant bounderies . God has taught us to throw our outlooks and onlooking into this form , to get the divine reality . Our view of life must be one that shall discern and unite all its parts and realities , in their place and relations , in their significance and value , taking it all in , on to its consummation , looking and looking till the great ideal...

U 1 _TERRRY UiORK AT _GETTYSBURG . It is well to gather into one place a statement of the literary work recently done and now in progress at Gettysburg . Tiieokeiical Ivnucs , by M . Valentine , D . D ., LL . D _., Chairman of the Theological Faculty . Published by Scott Forschman &amp;amp; Company , Chicago , 111 . In the _Luthcian Commentary Series , published by the Christian Literatuic Company , the volume on Luke is by H . L . Baugher , D . D , and the volume on Hemkews is by E . ) . Wolf , D . D _., Professor in the Theological Seininaiy . Tlie Lutheran Publication Society are about to issue two volume 1 ! by Mrs . Marie E . Richard : The Lives of Spencr and Francke , and The Country Charge . The Putnams will issue eaily in 189 S The Life of Melanchthon , now being prepaicd by J . W . Richard , D . D ., Professor in the Theological Seminary . E H nbei , D . D , Professor of English Bible in Pennsylvania College , is completing A Manual of Biuix Siunv , to be published by t...

TOWN NOTES . Jncob A . Kit ? iniller , after 11 lingering illness of many months , ( lied on Monday , May 24 th , a victim of that terrible scourge , Brights disease . In tile brave struggle be made against his disease be lost Hint which is as dear to man as life—sight Hoping against hope he buffered on to the end . Mr Kit 7 iuiller was one of Gettysburg s caucus that preeminently _dessrved the title of a self-made man . He was born in _Gettysburg in _lSj 2 , In 1 S 62 be enlisted in the United States service in Company B , 138 Regt . Pa . Vol . Infantry , participated in several hard fought battles and lost his left arm at Spottsylvnnin Court House in 1864 . In 1865 be was elected Prothonotary of Adams county and was known as more thoroughly familiar with the duties of that office than any one who before or since has held that office . He was appointed postmaster under both of _President Grant s administrations He began the study of the law in 1869 and was admitted to the Bar in 18...

JUDGE ASHMANS address to the Y . M . C . A . on Sunday evening gave great satisfaction to the large audience that assembled to hear him . His answers to the business man that the Christian religion is not practical and to the scientist that it is transcendental were exceedingly forceful and convincing . His points were illustrated in a specially apt and interesting way . The fact that it was a layman who presented this argument gave not a little additional force to what was said . The whole service , indeed , was very interesting and impressive . In the singing the solos were excellent and the hymns , in which the whole congregation heartily joined , were inspiring . TO THE ALUMNI and friends of Gettysburg College we bid a cordial welcome . We who are about to join the ranks of the Alumni are sincerely glad to have you present at our commencement exercises , for by your presence you manifest your interest in your Alma Mater and in us . It gives us new courage and life to grasp the h...